Barrel-hoop



(No Model.)

G. T. CHESTER.

BARREL HOOP.

No. 406,262. Patented July 2, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE T. CHESTER, OF LOOKPORT, NEYV YORK.

BARREL-HOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,262, dated July 2, 1889. Application filed Janimry 10, 1889. Serial No. 295,931. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE T. CHESTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lockport, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, have invented newand usefullmproveinents in Barrel-Hoops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of wooden barrel-hoops which are used in connection with a binding-wire applied to the outer side of the hook and encircling the same.

The object of my invention is to provide the hoop with a seat for the wire in a simple and inexpensive manner without weakening the hoop.

My invention consists, to that end, of a wooden hoop provided in its outer side with a longitudinal indentation impressed into the hoop, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a pair of rollers, whereby the indentation is formed in the hoop. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the hoop. Fig. 3 is a crosssection of the hoop, on an enlarged scale, before forming the indentation therein. Fig. 4c is a similar View showing the indentation formed in the hoop. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the wire seated in the indentation.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

A represents a wooden barrel-hoop of any suit-able or well-known form.

a represents an indentation formed longitudinally in the outer side of the hoop, preferably midway between the edges thereof. represents the binding-wire seated in this indentation. The latter may be impressed into the hoop by means of a roller 0, having a circumferential bead or rib c, as represented in Fig. 1, or by suitable dies, or in any other suitable manner; but in either case it is formed by compressing the fibers of the wood,as 0011-.

GEORGE T. CHESTER.

\Vitnesses:

JNo. J. BONNER, O. D. HowE. 

